Linus Van Pelt
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« on: March 15, 2015, 08:36:43 PM » |
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Torie's point about the inner suburbs is a good one, though it doesn't provide a complete explanation.
The Milwaukee area has a compact population distribution by Midwestern standards. Despite its small area, Milwaukee County has 61% of the Milwaukee MSA's population, compared to 55% of Chicago in Cook, 50% of the Twin Cities in Hennepin+Ramsey, and 42% of Detroit in Wayne. (Cuyahoga is 62% of Cleveland's, but it's almost twice the area of Milwaukee County). The Milwaukee MSA is also by some margin the second-densest metro in the Midwest, behind only Chicago. The point of all this is that the WOW is a bit more "outer-suburban" than it might intuitively appear just from looking at the county map.
This isn't a a complete explanation, first because even outer suburbs in other Midwestern metros aren't so Republican, and second because even the inner suburbs in the county are fairly Republican compared to other inner suburbs.
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